Today, traditional finance and the Bitcoin environment in Norway offers exciting news: Morten Søberg joins Sparebank 1 and takes up a newly created position as Secretary General of the Bitcoin Policy Institute.
In this regard, we at Kaupr have taken a video chat with Morten Søberg. As always when Morten has the floor, you should listen to him yourself — watch the video interview in about 20 minutes. But we share a few taste bits in text.
Morten tells both why he finds it exciting to join the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI), and how he wants to contribute to public awareness about money and Bitcoin, as well as promote Bitcoin in the public eye. “Intellectually challenging and an interesting civic affair” are the words he uses about the new job.
We visit Søberg's experience as a politician in various roles, and ask about his views on digital central bank money and Bitcoin as a possible reserve on Norges Bank's balance sheet. We also talk about Søberg's role as an author, both in connection with his previously published book, Svalbard Pengar, and a new book on Bitcoin reports coming this autumn.
Furthermore, we discuss how the view of Bitcoin, or the “Bitcoin narrative”, is changing, and current uses such as digital gold, art, means of payment, and more. Here Morten resorts to the Norwegian Mountain Law to find guidance...
For those who know Morten Søberg, it is hardly surprising that the phenomenon of money runs like a red thread throughout the interview.
Have a good time. Dig in.
Timeline of the interview
00:00 Morten Søberg in new role
01:35 What is Bitcoin Policy Institute
02:11 Role of the Secretary-General
03:07 Experience of politics
04:13 Soon a workshop in the Storting?
04:49 Digital central bank money and bitcoin reserves
08:25 Master's thesis blockchain and digital assets
09:25 Bitcoin ordinals and art
10:13 Travel, study and new book
10:48 Previous book Svalbard Money
11:44 What is money
13:26 Bitcoin as money
14:37 Different wrappers of Bitcoin
15:03 The Bitcoin narrative is changing
15:52 Bitcoin and its various uses
17:49 Payments, Bitcoin and stablecoin
20:07 What goals do you and the BPI have?
Today, traditional finance and the Bitcoin environment in Norway offers exciting news: Morten Søberg joins Sparebank 1 and takes up a newly created position as Secretary General of the Bitcoin Policy Institute.
In this regard, we at Kaupr have taken a video chat with Morten Søberg. As always when Morten has the floor, you should listen to him yourself — watch the video interview in about 20 minutes. But we share a few taste bits in text.
Morten tells both why he finds it exciting to join the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI), and how he wants to contribute to public awareness about money and Bitcoin, as well as promote Bitcoin in the public eye. “Intellectually challenging and an interesting civic affair” are the words he uses about the new job.
We visit Søberg's experience as a politician in various roles, and ask about his views on digital central bank money and Bitcoin as a possible reserve on Norges Bank's balance sheet. We also talk about Søberg's role as an author, both in connection with his previously published book, Svalbard Pengar, and a new book on Bitcoin reports coming this autumn.
Furthermore, we discuss how the view of Bitcoin, or the “Bitcoin narrative”, is changing, and current uses such as digital gold, art, means of payment, and more. Here Morten resorts to the Norwegian Mountain Law to find guidance...
For those who know Morten Søberg, it is hardly surprising that the phenomenon of money runs like a red thread throughout the interview.
Have a good time. Dig in.
Timeline of the interview
00:00 Morten Søberg in new role
01:35 What is Bitcoin Policy Institute
02:11 Role of the Secretary-General
03:07 Experience of politics
04:13 Soon a workshop in the Storting?
04:49 Digital central bank money and bitcoin reserves
08:25 Master's thesis blockchain and digital assets
09:25 Bitcoin ordinals and art
10:13 Travel, study and new book
10:48 Previous book Svalbard Money
11:44 What is money
13:26 Bitcoin as money
14:37 Different wrappers of Bitcoin
15:03 The Bitcoin narrative is changing
15:52 Bitcoin and its various uses
17:49 Payments, Bitcoin and stablecoin
20:07 What goals do you and the BPI have?
